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I agree, this is very frustrating. My “workaround” is to search for ` -f`, that is, two spaces in front of the flag.

Doesn’t always work but _usually_ gets me closer. Hope this helps disabling the feces.

A solution for this is actually shown in one of the asciicinema examples in the article: prepending \s+ will find only examples with whitespace in front.

https://asciinema.org/a/17Kcnb8PBNIz8JdogOFKVeDQn

I usually get around this by searching for -f<Space> or -f, (sometimes the comma separates a short and long option).

Frankly, I feel like man pages are largely useless and I've given up on them entirely. Instead, I use something like tldr to tell me what I need to do for common use cases, because when I'm trying to solve a certain task, I don't want to learn about 100 different flags for every single shell tool involved. If tldr fails, it's Stack Overflow.

I certainly look to tldr first. But man pages can still be quite useful